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bowstring wax; not really for lube, mainly to quiet the "squeaks"...
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In my Tournament days we used powder, keeps the tab smooth and slick.
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I would stay away from wax. Bowstring wax will grip. You can fell the grip as you apply it to a string. Cordovan leather with the process it goes through is about as slick as it comes and probaly gets slicker with use. Its like trying to get black ice on the road a little slicker. I heard an old timmer talk about rubbing baby powder on them. I would try that first wax you wont get off to easy.
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Back when I used to use a glove I kept a tube of chapstick handy and would rub a little bit of it on the fingertips. I guess a cordovan tab would be the same (I use a calf hair one now.)
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When my tab gets scuffed looking I use a special natural mixture of readily absorbed non-greasy animal wax esters and fatty oils plus the long-chain organic leather moisturizer squalene that I make myself.
That is, I wipe my thumb on my nose or forehead and rub the finger pads of my tab.
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What Pepper said...go to a hardware store and buy a stick of welders marking chalk...really inexpensive...and when you rub the edge on a solid object, it produces a powder...hence the powdered soap stone!!
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I don't use a tab but I use powdered soapstone on my glove.
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I use my own Beaver Hide finger tab that I custom cut to match my 2 fingers under shooting style and I think it gets plenty of wax from the string? I haven't ever used any lube of any kind on it so far. I kinda like the powdered soap stone idea though, maybe give that a try and see if it helps me get a cleaner release. I wouldn't like the baby powder unless I used a different tab for hunting because baby powder has a strong perfumy scent to it.
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Yep, baby powder or corn starch in a powder pouch clipped to your belt. Bateman still makes them. Baby powder for target, corn starch for hunting...Van
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